SPELLBOUND
The 80s Night For People Who HATE 80s Nights
brought to you by DJs SIMON PRICE (Stay Beautiful) & JAYNEY BLAMBLAM (Total Blam Blam)
***THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH***
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THE FACTS
Venue: Komedia Studio Bar, 44-47 Gardner Street, Brighton BN1 1UN (see http://www.komedia.co.uk/brighton for travel details)
Opening hours: 9:00pm-3:00am
Admission: £6
When: usually the THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH
WHAT WE’RE ALL ABOUT
Spellbound is an antidote to all the depressingly identical kitschy 80s nights out there. DJs SIMON PRICE (Stay Beautiful) and JAYNEY BLAMBLAM (Total Blam Blam) ditch the cheese and play the REAL good stuff from music’s greatest-ever era (our actual time span is approx 1979-1985, with Tubeway Army on Top Of The Pops as our Year Zero and the Live Aid concert our Doomsday, but we’ll spin the odd track outside that range if it’s good enough), to a wonderfully mixed crowd of people who remember it first time around and young ‘uns just discovering it all as new. Think: post-punk, goth, new romantic, alternative rock, new wave, electro, gender benders, early indie, 2 tone ska, mod revival, synth, blitz kids, oddballs, effeminate futurists and one-hit wonders… Look out for the Eighties visuals on the projections for extra period authenticity. Dressing up is encouraged, but not enforced. WHAT WE PLAY
A Flock Of Seagulls ABC Adam & The Ants Alien Sex Fiend Altered Images Associates B-52’s Bauhaus The Beat Birthday Party Blancmange Blondie Bolshoi Bow Wow Wow Kate Bush Captain Sensible The Clash Classix Nouveaux The Cramps The Cult The Cure Danielle Dax Dead Or Alive Depeche Mode Devo Dexys Divine Thomas Dolby Duran Duran Echo & The Bunnymen Eurythmics The Fall Fields Of The Nephilim John Foxx Fun Boy Three Gene Loves Jezebel Haircut 100 Heaven 17 Human League The Jam Japan Jesus And Mary Chain Grace Jones Joy Division Killing Joke Kraftwerk Magazine Marilyn New Model Army New Musik New Order Gary Numan Only Ones Orange Juice Orchestral Manoeuvres Pigbag Propaganda Psychedelic Furs Public Image Limited Ruts Scritti Politti Shriekback Sigue Sigue Sputnik Simple Minds Siouxsie & The Banshees Sisters Of Mercy Skids Smiths Soft Cell Spandau Ballet Specials Squeeze Strawberry Switchblade Stray Cats Style Council Talk Talk Talking Heads Teardrop Explodes Tenpole Tudor Theatre Of Hate Tom Tom Club Ultravox Violent Femmes Virgin Prunes Visage We’ve Got A Fuzzbox Kim Wilde Yazoo and loads more! ARRIVE EARLY! Spellbound is a very popular night and the venue is quite small, so it often fills up fast. We aren’t saying you won’t get in if you get there late: we liaise closely with Komedia security to ensure that queuing is as quick as possible and that people aren’t locked out unnecessarily when there’s room inside to accommodate them. But the best advice is still ARRIVE EARLY! CHEAP SNAKEBITE & BLACK! Anyone who’s an authentic first-generation 80s relic - or anyone who’s met one and heard their frontline stories from the Goth Wars - will know that the definitive drink for alternative 80s types was ‘SNAKEBITE & BLACK’ (that is, a pint glass containing half cider, half lager and a dash of blackcurrant to send it a lurid shade of purply-red). The lovely people at Komedia have agreed to sell pints of Snakebite & Black for the tempting price of just £3.00, exclusively for Spellbound! THE UNDERPANTS SONG! If that wasn’t already generous enough, every month you’ll have the chance to win a shot of CHERRY SOURZ for free! Listen out for The Underpants Song - in other words, “Underpass” by John Foxx - because every time the former Ultravox man shouts “underpants!” (that’s what it sounds like, anyway) we’ll throw a pair of Y-fronts into the crowd. If you catch one of the pants, you can exchange it at the bar for a shot of Cherry Sourz! YES, WE HAVE A CLOAKROOM! There is a permanently-manned cloakroom at Spellbound, to put your minds at rest when you want to ditch your belongings and dance, staffed by the lovely Bonnie, and priced at £1 per item.
